Voice actuated control system for use in a vehicle

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing first data defining a plurality of spoken words which are employed to provide selected control function;
• means for receiving spoken command words and providing second data defining each of the received spoken command words;
• means for comparing said second data with said first data and assigning a digital number representing the closeness of said second data with the closest word representative data of said first data, wherein said first data comprises at least two separate stored digital data sequences representing each word and wherein said comparing means compares said second data from said receiving means with each of said stored digital data sequences;
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• control means responsive to signals from said comparing means indicating a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken command word when said digital number falls within a predetermined number limit thereby indicating the probability of a correct word match.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing first data defining a plurality of spoken words which are employed to provide selected control functions;
• means for receiving spoken command words and providing second data defining each of the received spoken commands words, wherein said means for receiving spoken command words includes a microphone positioned in a vehicle above and forward of the operators mouth;
• means for comparing said second data with said first data and assigning a digital number representing the closeness of said second data with the closest word representative data of said first data;
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• control means responsive to signals form said comparing means indicating a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken command word when said digital number falls within a predetermined number limit thereby indicating the probability of a correct word match.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing first data defining a plurality of spoken words which are employed to provide selected control functions;
• means for receiving spoken command words and providing second data defining each of the received spoken command words;
• means for comparing said second data with said first data and assigning a digital number representing the closeness of said second data with the closest word representative data of said first data;
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• control means responsive to signals from said comparing means indicating a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken command word when said digital number falls within a predetermined number limit thereby indicating the probability of a correct word match wherein said control means further includes a push-button switch for selectively enabling said receiving means to detect spoken words only during a predetermined window of time initiated by each actuation of said switch.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing a predetermined number of command words defining a vocabulary for controlling selected functions of a vehicle, wherein said words are arranged according to pages with each page having words contained thereon necessary to complete a predetermined control function;
• means for recalling selected stored command words according to a predetermined pattern of functions selected to be carried out by the operator;
• means for detecting a spoken command and comparing the spoken command with the selected stored command words to determine if there is a word match;
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• control means responsive to the detection of a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken word which matches a stored word.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing a predetermined number of command words defining a vocabulary for controlling selected functions of a vehicle, wherein said words are arranged according to pages with each page having words contained thereon necessary to complete a predetermined control function, and wherein one of said pages comprises a radio control page;
• means for recalling selected stored command words according to a predetermined pattern of functions selected to be carried out by the operator;
• means for detecting a spoken command and comparing the spoken command with the selected stored command words to determined if there is a word match;
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• control means responsive to the detection of a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken word which matches a stored word.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing a predetermined number of command words defining a vocabulary for controlling selected functions of a vehicle, wherein said words are arranged according to pages with each page having words contained thereon necessary to complete a predetermined control function, and wherein one of said pages comprises a telephone control page;
• means for recalling selected stored command words according to a predetermined pattern of functions selected to be carried out by the operator;
• means for detecting a spoken command and comparing the spoken command with the selected stored command words to determine if there is a word match;
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• control means responsive to the detection of a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken word which matches a stored word.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing a predetermined number of command words defining a vocabulary for controlling selected functions of a vehicle, wherein said words are arranged according to pages with each page having words contained thereon necessary to complete a predetermined control function, and wherein one of said pages comprises a vehicle window control page;
• means for recalling selected stored command words according to a predetermined pattern of functions selected to be carried out by the operator;
• means for detecting a spoken command and comparing the spoken command with the selected stored command words to determine if there is a word match;
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• control means responsive to the detection of a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken word which matches a stored word.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing a predetermined number of command words defining a vocabulary for controlling selected functions of a vehicle, wherein said words are arranged according to pages with each page having words contained thereon necessary to complete a predetermined control function, and wherein one of said pages comprises a summary page of available control functions for the system;
• means for recalling selected stored command words according to a predetermined pattern of functions selected to be carried out by the operator;
• means for detecting a spoken command and comparing the spoken command with the selected stored command words to determine if there is a word match;
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• control means responsive to the detection of a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken word which matches a stored word.

A voice actuated control system for controlling a vehicle accessory comprising:

• means for storing data representing a plurality of command words which are employed to provide selected control functions;
• display means for displaying said command words which will effect control functions indicated by said display means;
• means for receiving spoken command words and converting such audio information into data which corresponds to the stored to the stored command word data when the stored command words are spoken;
• means for comparing data representing spoken command words with data representing said stored command words which are displayed to determine if a word match has occurred;
• control circuit means coupled to said comparing means and responsive to a word match for providing a control output signal associated with a spoken word which matches a stored stemplate;
• switch means having a plurality of switch locations identified by and aligned with said command words of said display means for providing said control output signal for the command word when the switch associated with the display command word is actuated by the operator;
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• a vehicle accessory having a control input coupled to said control circuit and responsive to control output signals for controlling the operation of the vehicle accessory according to the spoken commands.

A voice control for use in a vehicle comprising:

• storage circuit means for storing data corresponding to voice commands to be recognized by the system;
• means for detecting spoken voice commands and providing data corresponding to such commands;
• means for comparing spoken voice command data with voice command data in said storage means for determining if a match has occurred and for providing a control output signal in such event;
• means for selectively providing audible prompts to the operator for operation of the system;
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• display means for displaying voice command words which will be recognized.

A voice controlled system for controlling the operation of accessories in a vehicle comprising:

• a microprocessor and memory means for said microprocessor;
• a voice processor circuit coupled to said microprocessor;
• sound transducing means and means coupling said sound transducing means to said voice processing circuit for supplying audio information to and from the operator to said voice processing circuit;
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• program means for said microprocessor and contained in said memory means for operating said microprocessor for comparing signals identifying words spoken by an operator with stored signals representing the words for testing first and second closed word matches to verify if a spoken word is a recognizable command, wherein each first and second closest word match is assigned a digital number indicating the closeness of the word to a stored word.

A method of testing data for a voice actuated control system for a vehicle to assure an accurate word match has occurred comprising the steps of:

• providing first digital data representing storing at least one voice print of each word in the vocabulary of command words to be used;
• providing second digital data representing a word command spoken by the operator;
• comparing the second digital data with said first digital data to determine the first and second closest comparisons representing first and second closest word matches;
• assigning a digital number to said first and second word matches representing the closeness of the second digital data to a word representing by said first data;
• correlating said digital numbers against each other and predetermined constants;
• providing a control output signal for actuating a vehicle accessory in the event predetermined correlation occurs indicating a spoken command word has reliably been detected, wherein said first digital data includes a redundant stored command word for each command word of the vocabulary;
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• wherein said correlation step includes testing the first and second word matches to determine if they are the same.

A method of testing data for a voice actuated control system for a vehicle to assure an accurate word match has occurred comprising the steps of:

• providing first digital data representing storing at least one voice print of each word in the vocabulary of command words to be used;
• providing second digital data representing a word command spoken by the operator;
• comparing the second digital data with said first digital data to determine the first and second closest comparisons representing first and second closest word matches;
• assigning a digital number to said first and second word matches representing the closeness of the second digital data to a word represented by said first data;
• correlating said digital numbers against each other and predetermined constants, wherein said correlation step includes testing the number corresponding to the first closest match to determine if it is less than a constant and therefore, a good match;
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• providing a control output signal for actuating a vehicle accessory in the event predetermined correlation occurs indicating a spoken command word has reliably been detected.